# Bee Release 0.5.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bee-release-0-5-0/156744>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 2, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bee-release-0-5-0/156744 "2009-01-02T09:19:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![casa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@casa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casa)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bee-release-0-5-0/156744/1 "2009-01-02T09:19:03Z")

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Bee is a build tool running YAML files. These build files have a clean  
syntax à la Ant and run as fast as make. They are made of shell  
commands, Ruby code or Bee tasks for platform independent builds.

Hello World example looks like this:

–8\<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- target: hello  
script:
  - print: “Hello World!”  
–8\<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is that simple!

To start using bee within 15 minutes, type “gem install bee” and read  
Quick Start section at [http://bee.rubyforge.org/quickstart.html](http://bee.rubyforge.org/quickstart.html).

Enjoy!